(NEXSTAR) — A heartbreaking letter reveals the man who inspired Saving Private Ryan hoped to return to Normandy for the 40th anniversary of D-Day. He did not make it. Fritz Niland died one year ...

Mel Gibson was an early contender for a role in 'Saving Private Ryan', but he ended up making an impact on the movie in ...

Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 ... some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt.

looks at war scenes from "Saving Private Ryan" and rates them for realism. He breaks down the iconic movie opening of the landing on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy, often ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during World War II.

In the aftermath of the Normandy landings, a group of American soldiers scours the battlefields of France in search of a missing infantryman, who has been given compassionate leave to return home ...

(NEXSTAR) — A heartbreaking letter reveals the man who inspired Saving Private Ryan hoped to return to Normandy for the 40th ...

Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 ... some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt.

and it wouldn't be long before he and others were asked to storm Omaha Beach at Normandy in German-occupied France. Was Omaha Beach it really like you see in the movies? "Saving Private Ryan ...